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Earlier this week brought good news from the Australian Senate for animals involved in cosmetics testing. On 27 November 2014, the Senate has passed a cross-party motion in support of ending animal testing for cosmetics: http://www.humaneresearch.org.au/interview/australian-senate-motion-against-cosmetics-animal-testing-welcomed-by-becrueltyfree-campaigners Earlier this year, the Panel made verbal and written submissions to the national ALP Cosmetics & Animal Testing Policy Consultation,…

The Panel yesterday filed a submission to the Federal Labor parliamentary party sub-committee examining ways to implement a legislative ban on animal testing for cosmetics. Our chair, Graeme McEwen, today appeared before the sub-committee at a meeting in Melbourne on how such a legislative ban may be implemented and took questions from committee.

INDUSTRY and the public have been invited to have their say on whether that should happen, how bans could be enforced and its implications. The Panel will make a submission before the consultation period ends in August. Click here for the full story.

In July 2013, the Panel wrote to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (the ACCC) raising concerns about cosmetics companies misleading Australian consumers by marketing their products as not being tested on animals when, in fact, a report by consumer group ‘Choice’ suggested they were tested on animals. The Panel urged the ACCC to investigate…

The Panel has raised its concerns with the ACCC over misleading marketing claims by some cosmetic producers that they do not test their products on animals when it is plain that they do. Here the lucrative market of China with its requirement that products be animal tested (that is, on rabbits and mice) has a…

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The BAWP logo symbolises a barrister standing before the scales of justice. The scales of justice are depicted at the top of the logo and the inverse triangle at the foot of the logo represents the row of curls, known as 'buckles', at the back of the wig together with its looped tail.